Acting
David Threlfall
Born in Burnage, Manchester in 1953, David Threlfall is a celebrated actor of stage, film and television. In the latter, he is perhaps best known as the feckless Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless. In 1994 whilst working on a production of The Count of Monte Cristo at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Threlfall met Bosnian actress Brana Bajic and the pair subsequently married a year later.
Titles
Play for Today
1970
Have I Got News for You
1990
Spooks
2002
Ripper Street
2012
Screen Two
1985
Shameless
2004
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Playhouse
1974
Hot Fuzz
2007
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
Troy: Fall of a City
2018
ScreenPlay
1986
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
2003
Patriot Games
1992
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
2024
Urban Myths
2017
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Nightsleeper
2024
Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll
1999
Black Sea
2014
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
Cutting It
2002
Conspiracy
2001
Code of a Killer
2015
Funny Woman
2023
The Russia House
1990
The Death of Bunny Munro
2025
Paradise Postponed
1986
Nowhere Boy
2009
Passenger
2024
What Remains
2013
Like Minds
2006
A Dinner of Herbs
2000
Nightingales
1990
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1982
In the Beginning
2000